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  • The Death of the Choice Field in SharePoint 2010?

    The Death of the Choice Field in SharePoint 2010?

    When should you use a Choice field versus a Managed Metadata field in SharePoint 2010? Should all choice fields be converted to the new MMD fields?

  • SharePoint 2010 In Education

    SharePoint 2010 In Education

    Some thoughts and trends on SharePoint 2010 and Unified Communications in the education sector.

  • BCS External List Limitations

    BCS External List Limitations

    Details the limitations that External Lists have within SharePoint 2010 and how this can be confusing to both administrators and end users.

  • How Social Tools in SharePoint 2010 Encourage Engagement and Innovation

    How Social Tools in SharePoint 2010 Encourage Engagement and Innovation

    Justifying the cost of the Social Tools in SharePoint can be an interesting proposition. In this article we outline some of the strategys you can use in addition to showing where using Social tools can actually decrease the time spent on certain activities.

  • Consuming SharePoint Content Types in Office 2010

    Consuming SharePoint Content Types in Office 2010

    How to create content types that are defined in SharePoint 2010 through the Office 2010 client. This is an awesome feature that allows users to create content from within Office from a specific content type with actually needing to navigate to the document library.
    Use this functionality to create corporate content types accessible from the Office Client

  • Term Store Options and Configuration

    Term Store Options and Configuration

    The Term Store is the new one stop shop within SharePoint 2010 to define metadata to be used across your organisation. In this article we look at some of the configuration options, limits and permissions that are useful to know before constructing your solution.

  • SharePoint 2010 Search Refinement Panel Options

    SharePoint 2010 Search Refinement Panel Options

    The refinement panel is one of the most powerful web parts for search in SharePoint 2010. Learn what the various options do such as controlling the display of refiners and some common error and misconceptions. How do you make sure that you refiner counts are correct or make sure that all refiners display? This article details how and be sure to check out our other Refinement Panel articles as well.

  • How to Group By Content Type in SharePoint 2010

    How to Group By Content Type in SharePoint 2010

    How do you group by Content Type in SharePoint 2010? Pretty easy, all you need is SharePoint Designer and a little knowledge. Also you can always Group By any other fields using the powerful new List View’s that exist within SharePoint 2010.

  • SharePoint Federated Search Connector Examples

    SharePoint Federated Search Connector Examples

    Some examples of the possibilities that SharePoint Federated Search Connector files can be used for. This post contains a selection of FLD files including google, you tube, Yahoo Images and many others.
    Feel free to download them and use them in your SharePoint installation!

  • Content Type Publishing in SharePoint 2010

    Content Type Publishing in SharePoint 2010

    This details how to publish and subscribe to content types in SharePoint 2010, a great feature that enables you to centrally define your content types from one location.

Out of the box Configuration

Extending the SharePoint 2010 Document ID Feature Screencast

Extending the SharePoint 2010 Document ID Feature Screencast

[ 0 ] July 30, 2010

Screencast on how to configure and extend the document ID feature within SharePoint 2010

Portal Site Connection in SharePoint 2010

Portal Site Connection in SharePoint 2010

[ 3 ] July 9, 2010

How has the Portal Site Connection functionality changed in SharePoint 2010? Well its still there and can be leveraged to easily associate Site Collection to different Site Collection from a navigation perspective.

How to get the Content Organizer to automatically create folders

How to get the Content Organizer to automatically create folders

[ 0 ] June 29, 2010

You need to make sure that the field that you wish to automatically create folders on is required at the Content Type level, this post shows a brief example of this.

Business Value

SharePoint 2010 In Education

SharePoint 2010 In Education

[ 2 ] July 14, 2010

Some thoughts and trends on SharePoint 2010 and Unified Communications in the education sector.

How Social Tools in SharePoint 2010 Encourage Engagement and Innovation

How Social Tools in SharePoint 2010 Encourage Engagement and Innovation

[ 1 ] July 3, 2010

Justifying the cost of the Social Tools in SharePoint can be an interesting proposition. In this article we outline some of the strategys you can use in addition to showing where using Social tools can actually decrease the time spent on certain activities.

What makes a good SharePoint Analyst?

What makes a good SharePoint Analyst?

[ 0 ] April 27, 2010

What is a SharePoint analyst and how can an Analyst add value to clients and to the SharePoint platform?
How does the Analyst role differ than that of the SharePoint architect or Developer?

Cheet Sheets

BCS External List Limitations

BCS External List Limitations

[ 0 ] July 5, 2010

Details the limitations that External Lists have within SharePoint 2010 and how this can be confusing to both administrators and end users.

Term Store Options and Configuration

Term Store Options and Configuration

[ 1 ] June 24, 2010

The Term Store is the new one stop shop within SharePoint 2010 to define metadata to be used across your organisation. In this article we look at some of the configuration options, limits and permissions that are useful to know before constructing your solution.

SharePoint 2010 Site Search Drop Down Mode

SharePoint 2010 Site Search Drop Down Mode

[ 1 ] June 8, 2010

There is a range of new options specified for the Site search menu in SharePoint 2010. This post explains what they actually do!

Customizations

Are Document Sets Evil?

Are Document Sets Evil?

[ 0 ] August 17, 2010

So I have been playing around with Document Sets for a while and even though I think that they are a great idea, the current out of the box implementation is lacking. To the point that I think that they might be evil! Well not really but there are some issues which you should be [...]

Show Percentages in SharePoint 2010 Search Refiner Counts

Show Percentages in SharePoint 2010 Search Refiner Counts

[ 0 ] August 4, 2010

Shows how you can show percentages of returned results rather than counts in the search refinement panel in SharePoint 2010.

Creating an RSS reader using a Federated Search Web Part

Creating an RSS reader using a Federated Search Web Part

[ 0 ] June 19, 2010

How to create an RSS Reader using the Federated Search Results Web Part so that you have a free RSS reader for WSS 3.0

Infrastructure/Development

SharePoint Powershell Object Properties and Methods

SharePoint Powershell Object Properties and Methods

[ 0 ] August 31, 2010

Shows the different ways to access SharePoint 2010 Objects, Properties and Methods in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint Powershell for Solution Deployment (WSP)

SharePoint Powershell for Solution Deployment (WSP)

[ 0 ] August 8, 2010

How to use Powershell in SharePoint 2010 for solution deployment including adding, removing and upgrading both Farm and Sandbox solutions

SharePoint PowerShell for Beginners Part 1

SharePoint PowerShell for Beginners Part 1

[ 0 ] July 26, 2010

Basic usage of Powershell with Share Point 2010, learn how to start using Powershell for yourself!

General

Content Type Publishing Error in SharePoint 2010

Content Type Publishing Error in SharePoint 2010

[ 0 ] August 1, 2010

What happens when you cant find published content types on your Site Collection? You are missing a feature that need to be activated in order for it to appear.

The Death of the Choice Field in SharePoint 2010?

The Death of the Choice Field in SharePoint 2010?

[ 2 ] July 19, 2010

When should you use a Choice field versus a Managed Metadata field in SharePoint 2010? Should all choice fields be converted to the new MMD fields?

Consuming SharePoint Content Types in Office 2010

Consuming SharePoint Content Types in Office 2010

[ 0 ] July 1, 2010

How to create content types that are defined in SharePoint 2010 through the Office 2010 client. This is an awesome feature that allows users to create content from within Office from a specific content type with actually needing to navigate to the document library.
Use this functionality to create corporate content types accessible from the Office Client

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